Learning how to see

If we have relatively good eyesight it's easy to think that's all we need, "I know how to see! Just open my eyes and look!" One of the first lessons from learning to draw and paint was that I had no idea what was involved in seeing. Not just that I was lacking techniques useful…

Uncertainty and Cause & Effect

There's something tickling out there at the confluence of our refusal to accept uncertainty and our belief in cause & effect. Even here, as I ponder these two concepts, I'm falling into the expectation that relation equals cause. I was about to say that we refuse uncertainty – vehemently, violently, with suicidal insistence – because…